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In Kenya, ordinary people are all thinking
that he'll be the next president. It has been hard for me to explain to them that he doesn't stand a chance. But, I'm afraid, so far, the democrats don't have a valuable candidate.
posted by
linter
on April 2, 2007 at 8:12 AM
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Corbin
It's nice to finally read and, 'meet' you as your blog keeps showing up and I'm always missing it. Caught you today! I shake my head at all this talk of colour in your country. It's not that we don't have this issue here in Canada, but it's so tiny compared to what your press calls news. So sad. Thank you for writing about it though as I'm not up with these very important issues. I'm smiling. --Joy!Mary
posted by
FoliageGold
on March 31, 2007 at 2:44 PM
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Corbin Dallas
He appears too much like "lets tell it, true or not, we will fix it later". I am not sure he is as smart as Harvard wants us to believe. I don't care if he is purple, he is not the man for president.
posted by
Justi
on March 31, 2007 at 11:30 AM
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GlennB ~ No, he was dead serious.
Check out a transcript of the speech....it's frighteningly bizarre.
posted by
mark2556
on March 31, 2007 at 10:50 AM
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Mark2556,
A bit of hyperbole. There is no way his handlers will give him that much rope! But the way this thing is going who knows?
posted by
Glennb
on March 31, 2007 at 10:07 AM
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TAPS,
Great observations! I wish the people who oppose him would first ask him to make a stand! Where are his writings in opposition to the "war crimes" against the "Brown Race"? Like Bush, Reagan before him, and every other neo-politician thay want to ride into the Greatest Job on this Planet without examination of their "Soul". Let them and corporate media continue to rape and plunder the American people. By the way George Bush and his daddy are war criminals!
posted by
Glennb
on March 31, 2007 at 10:04 AM
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Obie's revisionist self-history also claims....
...that the 1965 civil rights marches in Selma, AL, inspired his parents to get married and have a son....himself. He made this statement earlier this month during a speech in Selma.
Which is a heck of a beautiful story, considering Obama was born in August of 1961. Perhaps his parent were also inspired to use Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine before procreating.
I figure that by this fall he'll be the son of John F. Kennedy and Oprah.
posted by
mark2556
on March 31, 2007 at 10:01 AM
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Corbin_Dallas
The reason I find your post here interesting is because I find that I am taking it from a personal point of view. First, I wonder if anyone has asked the "white" grandma if she wants to "come out of the closet" and be a part of the limelight. I have three grandsons, ages 18, 19 & 20 who have a "black" mother, grandmother, aunts & uncles. They live in another state and though I was their favorite when they were young, I'm not very much a part of their life now. If they became famous in some way, I would be very proud of them but not at all unhappy to take a back seat to their calling. Obama seems to be very open in his biographical information and speeches about his white mother and grandmother. Why can he not be proud of the black part of his heritage? If he played that down and focused on the white part, he would be belittled for that.
posted by
TAPS.
on March 31, 2007 at 9:52 AM
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Corbin_Dallas,
I am just trying to figure out the point here? Are we to accept that "White" folk should never pay for their crimes against the "Brown Race" (this is in reference to your "white guilt thing")? You say you have no time to write because you are too busy?? Why?? The "White Sheet and Hood" business is booming?
posted by
Glennb
on March 31, 2007 at 9:17 AM
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Corbin
the guy is gonna crash and burn! But this whole business of 'reverse racism' is quite intriguing...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 31, 2007 at 8:43 AM
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The boy is all smoke and mirrors!!
posted by
sarooster
on March 31, 2007 at 7:57 AM
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Corbin_Dallas
This is all new to me and very interesting. I will have to check out the link.
posted by
TAPS.
on March 31, 2007 at 7:31 AM
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But that's not the point.....
he's not only selectively rolling out his black step-grandmother.....he being helped to portray her as his actual grandmother.......
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on March 31, 2007 at 7:20 AM
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And it's not the first time.....
I have another post regarding the misrepresentations he made in Selma, Alabama and in his book about his life in Africa. He just seems to create it as he moves along the campaign trail....surely Hillary will not let him get away with this...........
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on March 31, 2007 at 7:17 AM
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This granny doesn't fit Obama's selling point, i.e. being a black man but
then again not many other candidates have rolled out their grandmothers in the campaign either
posted by
FreeManWalking
on March 31, 2007 at 7:16 AM
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Excellent reporting...Oh what a tangled web we weave...
posted by
scriber
on March 31, 2007 at 7:14 AM
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That's pathetic... Free the "granny", "free the "granny"!!!!
posted by
Troosha
on March 31, 2007 at 7:08 AM
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